I was looking for a battery charger that would handle both a DC charger and a USB charger at the same time. The charger needs to be a power path implementation. I had chosen the BQ24032A as it seemed to fit my needs, but I now noticed that the Vout voltage is only regulated to 4.4V when the DC charger is present and the active source. The datasheet seems to indicate that if USB is the input charging source, Vout is just Vusb minus the drop out voltage, so effectively 5V; "Note that the OUT pin regulates at 4.4V ±0.1V, with an adaptor input, on the bq24032A/bq24038 ICs, is switched straight through on the bq24030/5 ICs (up to 6V); and, on USB inputs (all ICs) is switched straight through from the USB input to the OUT pin."
This won't work for my system as the input needs to be 4.5V or less. Can you please confirm that I am reading the datasheet correctly that the "regulated 4.4V output" is really only regulated for DC inputs? It seems odd that the part would regulate down to 4.4V for the DC input but not for the USB input.
Thanks